notmyname9173

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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Tantrums, rage-quitting, and playing the victim are pretty consistent with his schtick. It’s sad, really. I used to respect the guy and still follow his work, but I think spending all of his time on conspiracies and abuses of power has mayb
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Hypocrisy and PR spin aside, he’s not wrong. I think, on the balance, that social networks are a net negative development for humanity and should be destroyed.
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Instead, we’re feigning shock that the party that wants to drown our government in a bathtub can’t govern effectively.
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Sources? I've got a dozen contradictions in mind already and I haven't even hit Wikipedia yet.
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Perhaps we should require a minimum % of post-consumer recycled content in new plastics going forward. I have decades of industry-sponsored research indicating that plastic recycling is cheap and effective.
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
6 months in, Agda is just as cryptic as it was on day 1.
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Specifically law enforcement, which seems to attract a lot of “bad apples.”
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Given that both organizations treat complying with legal and contractual obligations as a risk management exercise, I see no problem with their employees doing the same. It sounds like the subject of the story did the analysis, determined t
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
The government, as specified in the US Constitution, requires that candidates for president must be born in the US and over 35 years old. Assuming those requirements (and any others that may be added via amendments over time) are met, THEN
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Wild speculation: Customer service, support, and other direct interactions are difficult to scale. Large corporations tend to optimize direct-contact positions for cost and speed over quality. This act of endlessly “optimizing staff time” t
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Calling out bad-faith arguments just seems to make things worse (at least in the current US political/social climate). I usually just ghost people who engage in ad hominem attacks, lies, and deception in their arguments because I have
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
I suspect you may have overlooked who shows up between the kids and the older users: internet marketers. Marketers want clicks, eyeballs and engagement and they do that by sharing viral content, most often outrage porn. As long as a given p
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
We can’t even get people to wear masks in the middle of a fucking pandemic. Do you really think this is a likely and universalizable scenario?
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
auth0 and Okta are basically private SAML (+OAuth +OIDC) federation facilitators. The pieces to build what you describe are all out there, but there aren’t a ton of pre-assembled packages. Keycloak is a pretty competent all-in-one solution,
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
I think they should suspend access (with right to appeal) to all of their employer's repos until they address their employee problem.
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
He's not unable to receive messages, he just uses a niche messaging protocol that's openly hostile to automation.
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
And the paper that's sent to landfills breaks down into global warming-worsening gases.
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
And there is barely worse way to stay on top of things than email.
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
I used to run network printing for a 35,000 student university in the US. For some reason, the administration insisted that ICT provide printers free of charge to departments. When I started, we had 1 printer per 3 full time employees and t
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by notmyname9173 6y ago
Parkinson's Law of Data: "Data expands to fill the space available for storage" Most frequent use: Justifying quotas on NAS/SAN devices. People retain more stuff when they think a shared drive has 500GB free than they do